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irregularly cut at base. , Caps, subsessile or exserted, 

 ■with, or without columella. Perist. absent. 



54. Ephemerum, Hampe. Prothallus persistent. L. 

 ovate, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate-ligulatSj with 

 lax hyaline cells, nerved or nerveless, margin serrate 

 or inciso-ciliate. Caps, subsessile, columella absent. 



65. Physcomitrella, Sch^). Prothallus not persistent. 

 PI. minute. L. spreading, reflexed, thinly nerved, 

 serrate. Caps, on a longer or shorter seta, globose, 

 columella thick. Calyptra campanulate, fugaceous. 



Fiwn. 2. Funariae. 

 PI. larger. L. obovate and spathulate-acuminate. 

 Calyptra shortly dimidiate or 6-lobed. Caps, globose 

 or ovate, with a tumid neck, with or without peristome. 



56. Physcomitrium, Brid. Calyptra shorter than 

 capsule, 5-lobed. Perist. absent, with or without 

 annulus. 



57. Entosthodon, Schw. Calyptra dimidiate, with a 

 long beak. Caps, erect, rarely subcernuous, with the 

 neck pyriform, lid small, convex. Annulus absent. 

 Perist. either rudimentary or of 16 narrow articulate 

 teeth, confluent at base. 



58. Funaria, Schreb. Calyptra dimidiate. Caps, 

 cernuous, turgid, pyriform with the neck, gibbous, 

 lid convexo-oonical. Perist. rudimentary or double, 

 external t. linear-lanceolate, with the apices oblique 

 and converging into a disc, internal of opposite 

 lanceolate cilia. 



Tribe xvii. BAETEAMIACEiE. 



. L. narrow, lanceolate, or subulate, cells more or less 

 dense or lax, rhomboid, quadrate, or minutely quadrate 



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